Showrunner Eric Heisserer and author Leigh Bardugo discuss adapting the latter’s Grishaverse novels for Netflix fantasy drama Shadow & Bone, in which a lowly soldier unleashes an extraordinary power that might just set her country free.
Shadow & Bone, a Netflix fantasy series based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels, has its origins in a New Year’s Resolution. It was at the start of 2017 that writer Eric Heisserer, best known for penning feature films Arrival and the streamer’s own Bird Box, decided to read more for fun, rather than viewing every book he picked up as a potential development project.